Manifesto Pledges (3)

Keith Prince: In your manifesto you pledged “I won’t lower my ambitions for expanding the public transport network.” Given that your ambitions were clearly lowered over the course of your first term, for example by cancelling your 2016 manifesto pledge of building a Rotherhithe Bridge, when is the baseline date from which you will not lower your ambitions any further?

The Mayor: I have been clear that I am committed to working with the Government to agree a sustainable, long-term funding solution for Transport for London (TfL). Only with such an arrangement will the city be able to continue to invest in its public transport system and build on the dramatic improvements of the last twenty years. The fruits of long-term investment will be seen in the coming years, with the opening of the Elizabeth line; the planned completion of major upgrades to the District, Circle, Hammersmith and City and Metropolitan Lines; new trains for the Piccadilly line and DLR; the upgrade of Bank station; and the extensions of the Northern Line to Battersea Power Station and the London Overground to Barking Riverside. I will not lower my ambition, but in order for this to be realised TfL needs a fair long-term funding settlement.

Idling (2)

Tony Devenish: Broken down by month and by borough how much anti-idling enforcement has taken place across London over the last two years?

The Mayor: Please see my response to Mayor’s Question 2021/2186.

Filter Light Installation

Leonie Cooper: No right turns/no entry from the A24 have been introduced into Noyna, Mandrake and Fircroft Roads in Tooting, but only 3 or 4 cars are able to turn right into Beechcroft Road, which is creating tailbacks and idling. Could the Mayor ask TfL to install a filter light on Beechcroft Road Tooting to allow more cars to turn?

The Mayor: Transport for London (TfL) is aware of the issue, and is looking into options to address it, which could include the possibility of adding a filter light to the traffic signals at the junction of Trinity Road and Beechwood Road. This work, and the date when TfL might be able to deliver any changes on street, is subject to the constraints of the Government funding deal agreed on 1 June following the devastating impact of the pandemic on TfL’s finances.